#haejoon

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let's take a look at this scene from chapter 150 😁

despite her shows of vanity (a whole nother can of worms), eunyung struggles to accept compliments from haejoon, especially as they relate to her personal growth. she doesn't see making her own money and repaying her debts as praiseworthy because the circumstances surrounding her employment feel underhanded. her obfuscation is also part of that lack of personal development in her mind. it's hard for eunyung to recognize her growth because it's been drilled into her that she's incapable of it!!!

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i like that haejoon's and eunyung's situations are initially framed as won't vs can't go home, which remains true in a way, but it sorta makes you assume that haejoon and eunju just aren't on good terms and that eunyung's parents are out of the picture, possibly dead. once again, wanan plays with our expectations!! we're presented with a Situation and then given the context behind it. it's not the circumstances themselves that have really changed but our perceptions of it!

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i really like this brand of #haejoonmoment where he doesn't defer to people who believe they have authority over him and even actively calls them out on their bullshit because they've shown that they don't deserve his respect. i would even venture to call it an #eunjuism

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it's not something you think much of the first time around, but even in just this small interaction in chapter 3, we can get an idea of where there might be friction in the future - juwan's disconnect from haejoon's, and eunyung's, reality.

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🫩 ← haejoon. btw

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this is just thirteen separate layers of awful. even out of context its unbearable, but when you consider eunyung's aversion to communication / spoken apologies as it relates to the physical abuse she's experienced at the hands of her father, the negative effects of haejoon's mad dogisms, haejoon's father being an abuser as well,,,, what if i said group lobotomy in 10 minutes